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So yeah, the current economy system is horribly broken. While the suggestions I'll give won't fix it, it'll help plug up some of the more exploitable usages.
What server admins can do without Dev intervention:
1. Remove faction blocks from the cubatom list.
2. Reduce the price of Ice Planet Rock from 100 to 1. Y'know, like the other types of planet terrain.
3. (Optional) Reduce price of hard hull. I usually settle for going from 1500 to 500. Hull is still paper though.
4. (Optional) Increase the price of build blocks massively (I think 100,000,000 is fine) and remove build blocks from the cubatom list. Fewer planet/station build blockers.
5. Reduce the price of L5 ore from 1,000,000 to 150,000. It takes 10 L4 ore to make 1 L5 ore and L4 or is worth 10k each. So where does the other 900,000 come from? I think 50k is enough to make it a worthwhile effort.
What we need the Devs to do:
1. Add an option to turn off price inflation.
2. Make the trading guild much more active.
3. Add an option to control how much shops spawn with.
4. Add an option to control how much a shop restocks without a trading guild.
5. Add an option to exclude certain blocks from pirate/planet loot.
The trading guild just isn't active enough to keep shops stocked; and they don't restock shops if no one is in the sector long enough for them to appear. Shops already spawn pretty empty and this just keeps them empty. Which drives up the prices of blocks to 2x their original cost.
What server admins can do without Dev intervention:
1. Remove faction blocks from the cubatom list.
2. Reduce the price of Ice Planet Rock from 100 to 1. Y'know, like the other types of planet terrain.
3. (Optional) Reduce price of hard hull. I usually settle for going from 1500 to 500. Hull is still paper though.
4. (Optional) Increase the price of build blocks massively (I think 100,000,000 is fine) and remove build blocks from the cubatom list. Fewer planet/station build blockers.
5. Reduce the price of L5 ore from 1,000,000 to 150,000. It takes 10 L4 ore to make 1 L5 ore and L4 or is worth 10k each. So where does the other 900,000 come from? I think 50k is enough to make it a worthwhile effort.
What we need the Devs to do:
1. Add an option to turn off price inflation.
2. Make the trading guild much more active.
3. Add an option to control how much shops spawn with.
4. Add an option to control how much a shop restocks without a trading guild.
5. Add an option to exclude certain blocks from pirate/planet loot.
The trading guild just isn't active enough to keep shops stocked; and they don't restock shops if no one is in the sector long enough for them to appear. Shops already spawn pretty empty and this just keeps them empty. Which drives up the prices of blocks to 2x their original cost.